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Foresight Group (Foresight), an independent infrastructure and private equity investment manager, has sold Idio Limited (Idio) to Episerver, a customer-centric digital experience company.
The acquisition is expected to enhance Episerver’s analytics and personalisation capabilities to deliver customer-centric digital experiences.
Idio is a content personalisation and analytics platform powering the digital buying experience of some of the world’s largest enterprise organisations. Through real-time predictive analytics, Idio helps close the gap between what customers want and what businesses can offer. Idio predicts the interests and intent of every individual buyer and automatically delivers hyper-relevant content to better engage each customer for improved
Independent management and investment firm, Wellington Management (Wellington), has announced the final close of the Wellington Biomedical Innovation Fund I (the Fund).
At the point of closure, the Fund was oversubscribed.
The Fund will invest in private biotechnology companies focused on drug discovery and development, and seeking capital to advance their scientific programmes[1] .
The close of the Fund expands Wellington’s private investment platform, which includes both healthcare and late-stage growth funds totalling USD2.7 billion. The Fund’s global investor base includes public and private pension plans, insurance companies, corporations and family offices.
Bob Deresiewicz, MD, Senior Managing Director at
Avedon Capital Partners has sold its stake in Olympia, an employment agency focused on the social transition to meaningful work, to Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing.
Morgan Stanley Tactical Value Investing will support Olympia in the next phase of its growth and strategy. Olympia has over 10 years of industry experience in job placement and aims to deliver solutions for candidates to build a data-driven, digital company. The organisation focuses on operational professions in six segments: logistics, production, contact centres, municipal authorities, technology and administration. Within these segments, Olympia prepares individuals for the future work environment by training, developing and
Specialist private investment firm, Cairngorm Capital Partners (Cairngorm Capital), has acquired independent builders’ merchant, Grant & Stone, and its commence subsidiary, Trading Depot UK Limited.
Cairngorm Capital has acquired Grant & Stone from its founding shareholders and will support the current management team, led by Chief Executive, Nick House.
House says: “We welcome the investment and support from Cairngorm Capital. Our company is at a really exciting point in its development and is ready to capitalise on the numerous growth opportunities available to it. We have ambitious plans to fulfil but also the advantages of exceptional products, first-rate employees
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) Fire and life safety platform, Protegis Fire and Safety (Protegis), has acquired Florida Fire Service (Florida Fire).
The Tampa-based company provides fire alarm, sprinkler and extinguisher inspection and repair services, along with service and installation. As a result of Protegis’ growth, Florida Fire now employs nearly 350 fire protection technicians across the country.
“We’ve had a strategic partnership with Florida Fire for nearly ten years and are pleased to welcome them to our growing Company,” says Mike Epperson, Protegis CEO.
Doug Higgs, the Founder of Florida Fire, says: “We are excited to partner with
Washington DC-based private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners (Arlington Capital) has agreed to sell Quantum Spatial (Quantum) to NV5 Global for USD303 million.
Quantum Spatial, one of the USA’s largest independent geospatial data firms, provides geographic insights to government and corporate organisations that need geospatial intelligence to mitigate risk, plan for growth, better manage resources and advance scientific understanding.
Peter Manos, a Managing Partner at Arlington Capital, says: “Through significant investments in technology and people, Quantum Spatial has achieved significant organic growth during our ownership and solidified its role as the largest independent geospatial data firm in the United States. Quantum’s
BNP Paribas Securities Services has taken a strategic stake in the capital of fintech AssetMetrix. The partnership will enable BNP Paribas Securities Services to expand and digitalise its services to private capital clients and investors.
By deploying AssetMetrix’s leading technology and web services within its private capital business, BNP Paribas Securities Services will give its clients access to powerful analytics and reporting tools dedicated to the analysis of non-listed investments (private equity and debt).
This will enable clients to optimise decision-making and enhance risk monitoring. Asset manager clients will also be able to provide their end investors with individual
Mirova Natural Capital wholly owned by sustainable investment manager Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, has held the second close of the Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF), a fund dedicated to making pioneering impact investments into marine and coastal projects and enterprises that can deliver sustainable economic returns in fisheries, aquaculture, associated seafood supply chains, ocean waste & recycling and marine conservation.
The fund’s total commitments are now more than USD92 million.
The fund invests in scalable, impact-aligned businesses that harness the ocean’s natural capital with the objective to generate real assets, build resilience in coastal ecosystems and
CentralNic has signed a conditional agreement to acquire Munich-based web services provider Team Internet from Matomy for a total of USD48 million.
CentralNic said it expects the acquisition to be immediately earnings enhancing and earnings accretive in 2020 before any synergies.
The acquisition will add an additional 40 staff in Germany, shifting CentralNic’s critical mass with almost 200 engineering and other staff members based there. All Team Internet management and staff will remain with the business following completion, with the three founders being retained on the supervisory board to guide the future growth of the business.
Ben Crawford,
Albion Capital, an independent investment manager, has held the first close of its new asset-backed private equity fund, Albion Real Assets Fund (ARAF). First close investors include the GBP9 billion Merseyside Pension Fund and several high net worth families.
ARAF is a continuation of Albion Capital’s successful asset-backed investment strategy and focuses on investing in operational businesses underpinned by assets with intrinsic value and working with proven management teams. Albion targets sectors with strong societal drivers that have resulted in substantial unmet demand for premium physical assets and infrastructure, and creates value by building a group of these assets.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
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